The Great America Show - August 24, 2023


Mid-Day Update： GOP Debate Falls Flat


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

155.76965

Word Count

706

Sentence Count

37


Summary

Judicial Watch's President Tom Fitton joins host Lou Dobbs to discuss the collapse of ethics in the Justice Department, and the ongoing case against President Trump in the Georgia grand jury investigation into his conduct as a presidential candidate in 2016.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I'm Lou Dobbs with this Great America Midday Update.
00:00:03.580 Corporate national media trying to manufacture buzz around last night's Fox Republican debate.
00:00:09.000 They didn't have much to work with, and they failed.
00:00:11.860 The charisma quotient on that stage last night was a negative number.
00:00:16.220 The big question of the night was never asked.
00:00:18.420 Whatever made any of those eight candidates think they have what it takes to be president?
00:00:23.040 The moderators were less than lively, and they seemed uninspired,
00:00:26.120 much like most of the candidates.
00:00:28.680 To their credit, all of the candidates but two raised their hands
00:00:32.280 when asked if they would support President Trump if he wins the nomination and is convicted.
00:00:38.240 The moderator seemed surprised by the overwhelming show of support for President Trump.
00:00:43.820 Fox News actually ran a MoveOn.org ad bashing Trump during the debate
00:00:49.560 and had a live shot going into a commercial break of the Fulton County Sheriff's area
00:00:54.080 where President Trump will be driven today to his arraignment.
00:00:58.260 Classy, huh?
00:00:59.720 In the same time slot, Twitter aired the recorded interview with Tucker Carlson and President Trump.
00:01:05.900 President Trump was warm, sharp, personable, presidential.
00:01:09.640 And Tucker, to his credit, did a lot of listening.
00:01:12.680 A good boost for the ex-outlet and Tucker.
00:01:16.320 President Trump did pretty well as well.
00:01:18.500 The president today in Georgia for his arraignment and what a sorry bunch the sheriff,
00:01:23.600 the district attorney, and the selected judge for the president's trial are.
00:01:27.840 They're partisans, they're prejudiced, and seemingly proud of it.
00:01:31.300 Folks, keep fighting, because at some point this country will come to its senses.
00:01:35.940 Pray that point is reached soon.
00:01:38.660 Our guest on the Great America Show today is Judicial Watch's President Tom Fitton.
00:01:43.620 Here he is on the collapse of ethics in the Justice Department.
00:01:48.600 The Justice Department is in a state of ethical collapse.
00:01:51.900 I mean, you've got two components of it, interrelated, two sides of the same coin,
00:01:57.520 which is the abusive targeting of Trump, indicting him about nothing,
00:02:02.320 essentially trying to jail him for having a different political point of view
00:02:05.980 and policy view than Biden on elections,
00:02:09.500 punishing him for disputing elections,
00:02:11.160 and warning others, a few dispute elections, you'll go to jail too.
00:02:15.600 And then the invert, you know, and the other side of that coin is,
00:02:19.300 well, you know, let's go after Trump,
00:02:21.500 and hopefully people are distracted from the Biden corruption.
00:02:25.160 And so you've got Garland and Weiss
00:02:28.000 and other senior officials at the Justice Department,
00:02:31.280 FBI's IRS,
00:02:34.020 caught red-handed in obstructing
00:02:36.020 and engaging in overt acts, right,
00:02:39.680 to protect the Bidens from any serious criminal investigation.
00:02:45.000 And over the weekend that was exposed.
00:02:47.280 I guess Hunter Biden's people put out documents
00:02:49.660 showing that the Biden regime was prepared to
00:02:54.720 issue no indictments against Hunter Biden
00:02:57.740 until the IRS whistleblowers came forward
00:03:00.760 and said there was obstruction of justice going on.
00:03:03.060 And then they came up with a sweetheart plea deal
00:03:05.760 that would have put him out to mild tax crimes
00:03:09.960 with no effective jail time
00:03:11.560 and a dangerously broad and unprecedented immunity agreement,
00:03:16.540 given the circumstances.
00:03:18.880 And so all that's happening.
00:03:21.600 And what do we get?
00:03:22.880 We get another indictment of Trump down in Georgia.
00:03:26.160 As if it could get worse, it did get worse
00:03:28.520 because the Georgia indictment stands out
00:03:31.680 as being a complete legal fiction
00:03:35.080 that has no basis in fact or law
00:03:39.060 in the sense that it alleges no criminal activity
00:03:43.900 by President Trump, frankly, anyone else,
00:03:46.860 as best I could tell,
00:03:48.600 that would subject these innocents
00:03:51.320 to court process and having their lives torn apart.
00:03:55.700 It's a terrible state our country's in
00:03:58.020 and it's all election interference
00:03:59.560 and there's no, you know, now we know,
00:04:02.480 you know, the Democrats in Fulton County
00:04:04.740 want this trial to go on in the middle of next year.
00:04:07.920 The Democrats in D.C. want the trial to begin
00:04:11.880 the beginning of next year,
00:04:14.660 right in the middle of the primary campaigns.
00:04:16.700 And who are they fooling?
00:04:18.280 Who are they fooling?
00:04:20.060 Three years and they wait till the primaries
00:04:22.300 to start indicting?
00:04:23.260 Please join us for all of our discussion
00:04:25.440 with Tom Fitton today on The Great America Show.
00:04:28.800 I'm Lou Dobbs with this Great America Midday Update.